Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 6(4), pp. 121 - 129
DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2018.060402
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Remembering False Memories: Insights from DRM Studies

Patrycja Maciaszek ^*
Institute of Psychology, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland

ABSTRACT

The issue of how certain we could be about our memory and the accuracy of its content draws researchers' attention for decades. Still, as the new data appears, the question remains important, especially on fields of cognitive and social psychology. Presented research focuses on creation of laboratory- evoked false memories that demonstrate high level of certainty of "remembering" declared by participants. Thus, the main aim of presented studies was to establish whether false memories are transferred from semantic memory, where they are believed to appear into the episodic memory. It was assumed that recollecting memories, as well true as false, is connected with increasing level of activation in a very specific part of memory network within semantic memory magazine. It was crucial to (1) investigate if similar effect appears regarding to false episodic memories and (2) verify whether the laboratory-created false memories behave rather like true memories instead of random mistakes. Hypothesis were verified using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (list-of- words-related, DRM) paradigm and remember-know judgment procedure. Study conducted on 61 Jagiellonian University students shown that participants reported more often remembering both: true and false memories (contrary to unrelated mistakes). Moreover, medium level of properly recollected words (57%) was approximate to medium level of false memories (52%). Such results showed that effect of memory transfer between semantic and episodic memory magazines occurred, and that laboratory-evoked false memories engage "the feeling of remembering" events that never occurred.

KEYWORDS
Memory, Semantic, Episodic, False Memories, DRM Paradigm, Feeling of Remembering, Remember Judgment, Confidence Judgments

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Patrycja Maciaszek , "Remembering False Memories: Insights from DRM Studies," Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 121 - 129, 2018. DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2018.060402.

(b). APA Format:
Patrycja Maciaszek (2018). Remembering False Memories: Insights from DRM Studies. Universal Journal of Psychology(CEASE PUBLICATION), 6(4), 121 - 129. DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2018.060402.